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And what are that adapter's limitations? What's it's efficiency? How do I power drives off it? Will I only be able to run a Samsung MZ-MTE1T0BW mPCIe drive? What if I add a PCIe card?

FYI, the board has a SATA power connector on it to power peripherals. This is perfect for the typical use case where everything you need is on the board, except the hard drive and possibly an optical drive. Anything that requires more power will need an internal power supply, but most people won't need this anyway.

New results (much closer to reality)

Yes,

I can't blame anyone for "wrong" results. All I can say is that my results with the cheapo MSI motherboard and 8G of good ram paint an entirely different picture. From these results you are pretty much seeing a doubling of performance over E-350, and I might add that the system (only the motherboard and cpu are different from my previous e-350) idles at 3 Watts lower, and peeks pretty much the same 30 Watts.

No one in their right mind would run only 4G of ram on a multi-purpose machine. If it was a dedicated single-app server sure, but not a desktop.

Small amounts of RAM more common than you think

Originally Posted by cbxbiker61

Yes,

I can't blame anyone for "wrong" results. All I can say is that my results with the cheapo MSI motherboard and 8G of good ram paint an entirely different picture. From these results you are pretty much seeing a doubling of performance over E-350, and I might add that the system (only the motherboard and cpu are different from my previous e-350) idles at 3 Watts lower, and peeks pretty much the same 30 Watts.

No one in their right mind would run only 4G of ram on a multi-purpose machine. If it was a dedicated single-app server sure, but not a desktop.

There is one obvious reason someone would build a desktop with 4G of RAM: if they are building or rebuilding from existing parts and that's what they've got. I built two machines from older Phenom II x4 setups, had 8G of ram on hand. The one that got the most video editing work got 6G and the other got only two and works fine, though Kdenlive must be run by itself on the latter and projects periodically closed and reopened. In all other work it's ever done you would not notive. Both run copies of my main 64bit OS, if the smaller one got much hard use I would redistribute the RAM back to how it was in 2011 when each board had 4G and both worked fine for everything they were used for.

There is one obvious reason someone would build a desktop with 4G of RAM: if they are building or rebuilding from existing parts and that's what they've got. I built two machines from older Phenom II x4 setups, had 8G of ram on hand. The one that got the most video editing work got 6G and the other got only two and works fine, though Kdenlive must be run by itself on the latter and projects periodically closed and reopened. In all other work it's ever done you would not notive. Both run copies of my main 64bit OS, if the smaller one got much hard use I would redistribute the RAM back to how it was in 2011 when each board had 4G and both worked fine for everything they were used for.

Yes, if you're throwing something together for cheap, by all means reuse parts if you can get away with it.

But really the main point is if you've got $300-$600 invested in a machine, $30-$40 for 4G only make sense. The old adage "penny wise and pound foolish" applies here.

Maybe you don't being aware of, but there are few tweaks to raise graphic performance in games of course . Keep in mind that kernel 3.16 is generaly faster for SI hardware due to VM implemented/enabled.

So as i see you have 56 fps in Xonotic low for example, i am seeing 70 fps with kernel 3.16.

Additionaly with hyperz enabled i have 80 fps there.

With governor set as 'performance' 84 fps.

New parameters to play with in kernel 3.16 are vm_size and vm_block_size can also raise perf by few fps - so currently with the current stack what i can get is 86 fps .

All in all that is 30 fps difference or +35% in graphic performance in Xonotic 1080p low case, raised with the few tweaks .

I can't blame anyone for "wrong" results. All I can say is that my results with the cheapo MSI motherboard and 8G of good ram paint an entirely different picture. From these results you are pretty much seeing a doubling of performance over E-350, and I might add that the system (only the motherboard and cpu are different from my previous e-350) idles at 3 Watts lower, and peeks pretty much the same 30 Watts.

No one in their right mind would run only 4G of ram on a multi-purpose machine. If it was a dedicated single-app server sure, but not a desktop.